WikiLeaks Has Raised 4,000 BTC Since 2011
International whistleblowing organization WikiLeaks has published classified media and news leaks since it was founded in 2006. In 2011 – due to a payment blockade from traditional finance services – the nonprofit started accepting bitcoin. Since this time the group has accumulated a massive $2.9 million in bitcoin donations. WikiLeaks Has Raised 4,000....
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Julian Assange has described how bitcoin founder 'Satoshi Nakamoto' asked him not to use the fledgling digital currency for WikiLeaks fundraising, and how going along with that request helped protect bitcoin from government scrutiny during its early days. The revelations came in a Reddit Ask Me Anything (AMA) session set up by the WikiLeaks founder to promote his new book, When Google Met WikiLeaks. Most of the Q&A revolved around WikiLeaks and politics, but the subject of bitcoin was raised on more than one occasion. Assange said: "There's lots on bitcoin in my book - on my thoughts on....
We've seen all sorts of bitcoin fundraisers going on in the community recently, but did you know there existed a fundraiser to help with the legal defense of Edward Snowden? There apparently is, and the amount of money its raised so far is nothing to scoff at. As of this writing, the address [Blockchain.info link] has collected just about 150 bitcoins, or $87,195 at the present exchange rate. Snowden defense fund has raised $90,341.66 in #Bitcoin https://t.co/cKda45taX1 donate: http://t.co/GEHJ0hK5YS info: https://t.co/SdNf8MpTa1. - WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) June 24, 2014. The news comes from....
What did WikiLeaks' Julian Assange tell Google's previous CEO Eric Schmidt about bitcoins? Assange, the whistle-blowing media organization's publisher, met with then-CEO Schmidt and Jared Cohen, advisor to former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in June 2011. The meeting was arranged at the request of Schmidt and Cohen, who were working on "The New Digital World," a book set for publication this month. WikiLeaks has now published a transcript of the secret meeting on its website. The conversation turns to bitcoin after Schmidt and Assange had been discussing the distributed hash....
WikiLeaks has received over $2.9 million in Bitcoin donations for its operations. The decentralized nature of Bitcoin makes it independent of conventional banking and payment systems. The very reason led to WikiLeaks adopt cryptocurrency payments as the main donation option on its website. The whistleblower site created by Julian Assange has the habit of constantly finding itself in the bad books of the governments, which in turn has impacted its access to banking services. A few years ago, PayPal and Valitor — a credit card payment service provider briefly stopped offering their services....
In a July 20 interview, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange spoke about the resurgence of the platform, and the release of new evidence proving U.S. Secret Service surveillance of the German government on an unprecedented peacetime scale. Talking about the increase in published material over the last few months, Assange stressed that the site never stopped posting documents, but that some of these (regarding Syria, for example) had not been of great interest to Western media. In addition, the conflict since 2010 with the U.S. government lead to a banking blockade that cut WikiLeaks off from....